"We're both cursed, in a way."
We all know the story of Kai Parker, but he once lived in a very different life. Do you ever wonder what that life looked like?
"I tried to scream." [everything i wanted - Billie Eilish]
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JO awoke the thunderous, pained grunts echoing below her. The sound made her instantly grimace, eyes clenched shut in order to try and block out the sound of her brother being beaten. Jo hated when Kai was beaten, it was one of the few things that she hated about her father; he could not control his temperamental anger.
The young witch turned over in her bed, facing the black white wall the stared back at her and letting a soft smile grace her lips at the small dent marking it. When they were nine, Kai and Jo had an argument about who had the best aim. In order to decide who was best, Kai suggested they both throw a ball at a target they put up on her wall and whoever hit it square on first won. When Kai lost he got so angry that he threw a nearby bottle into the wall, causing a small dent to form in the surface. But the smile quickly diminished when another one of her brothers grunts of pain reminded Jo of what ensued for him after their father found out the true cause of the damage.
Kai refused to scream or cry when Joshua hit him. Jo didn't know why, but she suspected it was a thing of pride. That if Kai didn't show how much it truly hurt, Joshua hadn't won. In his own twisted was the method seemed to work for Kai, as Jo had very rarely seen her twin break under Joshua's thumb.
The girl closed her eyes, pulling her covers over her head and stealing her breathing, sighing out a breath of relief when she realised the grunting had stopped. She slowly drifted back into sleep, but that didn't mean she got a break.
... "Fuck, Kai, will you stop moaning and stay still." Mack wined, rolling her eyes about how Kai flinched away and groaned in pain every time she attempted to clean the bloody cuts criss-crossing over old scars across his beaten back
"That's not what you usually tell me." Kai smirked, turning his head to look over his shoulder and throw a wink at Mack, who merely scoffed. "And besides - do I see your father stood over you menacingly holding a belt every time you screw up? No. So shut it." Kai's tone remained light but Mack had learnt to read between the lines with him, quickly shutting up as she registered how much hurt this matter held for the teenager.
Mack silently wiped his cuts clean, quickly apologising with every sharp intake of breath that Kai took. After she'd finished cleaning the now-dried blood, she quickly applied a healing salve before she begun dressing his wounds - double check with Kai that the bandages were tight enough which he was quick to correct for her.
"All done." Mack smiled as she finished, popping the left over salve and bandages into the little first aid kit that was sat open on the bed and turned back to Kai, who was now sat facing her in his bed.
Kai had called Mack this afternoon, the second Joshua's car had been out of sight and broken into tears over the phone, when Mack had to stop him from hurting himself further as a punishment for caving into Joshua again. Jo had left the house too - taking their younger siblings to the babysitter's before heading off to do some errands.
